The novels title is taken from the popular dominican merengue mataron al chivo they killed the goat, which refers to trujillos assassination on may 30. His many works include the feast of the goat, the bad girl, aunt julia and the scriptwriter, the war of the end of the world, and the storyteller. Start a free 30day trial today and get your first audiobook free. This movie is a about the brutal reign of rafael trujillo, the dominican dictator, from 1930 up 1961 when he was assassinated. The novels title is taken from the popular dominican merengue mataron al chivo they killed the goat, which refers to trujillos assassination on may 30, 1961. It tells us about the rise and fall of the man was brutal, power hungry, cruel, and would stop at nothing to remain in power. The book has an unlikely hero to reveal the name here would constitute a spoiler and, obviously, an antihero trujillo himself. Perus foremost writer, he has been awarded the cervantes prize, the spanishspeaking worlds most distinguished literary honor, and the jerusalem prize. The delightful isabella rosselini plays uranita, the long lost child that wanders back home thirty years after fleeing.
The novels title is taken from the popular dominican merengue mataron al chivo they killed the goat, which refers to trujillos assassination on may. Vargas llosa points out the titles relationship to a popular dominican merengue through the novels epigraph. Its the first mario vargas llosa book ive read, and it fullfilled my expectations greatly. The novel is based on the last days and the assassination of one of the most tyrannical and bloodthirsty dictators of latin american, rafael leonidas trujillo. Merengue is a style of music created by nico lora in the 1920s and actively promoted by trujillo himself. Urania cabral isabella rossellini returns to santo domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her familys relationship to rafael leonidas trujillo tomas milian, the dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination. Based on the last days and the assassination of one of the most tyrannical and bloodthirsty dictators of latin america, rafael leonidas trujillo. Kindle store buy a kindle free kindle reading apps kindle books buy a kindle free kindle reading apps. The beauty of this maccabre book is that vargas llosa not only relates the facts and history of trujillos era, but he also takes great care to study the man behind.
Hollywood is not, they should have given it to hollywood but they didnt. Rafael trujillo was most definitely the devil reincarnated. I was waiting for this movie, everybody knows the book its already a classic, trujillos era its one of the bloodiest of all the dictatorsships that latin america has. Rafael trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom dominicans call the goat. The feast of the goat by mario vargas llosa goodreads. With tomas milian, isabella rossellini, paul freeman, juan diego botto. The feast of the goat by mario vargas llosa, paperback. Mar 03, 2006 first of all this movie is nothing like the book and is definitely not the era of trujillo.